Western River Stories
Day 4 Grand Canyon: Big rapids, beautiful waterfalls
By Eileen Ogintz
DID YOU KNOW: It takes an eight-mile hike to reach the famous and popular 98-foot high Havasu Falls, within Havasupai tribal...
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Better and best: Thoughts on our last day rafting the Grand Canyon
By Eileen Ogintz
DID YOU KNOW: Only about 100 people had traveled by boat through the Grand Canyon by 1949–eighty years after John Wesley Powell’s...
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DAY ONE: Rafting the Grand Canyon with Western River Expeditions
Guest Blog originally posted on www.takingthekids.com
By Eileen Ogintz
DID YOU KNOW: The oldest rocks in the Grand Canyon date back 1.8 billion...
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Fitting Everything in One Bag: Rafting Survival Kit
The nationwide lockdowns probably put a damper in your enthusiasm as it has prevented most of us from pursuing our travel plans. But instead of...
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Behind the Scenes Grand Canyon Rafting
At some point in any river trip through the Grand Canyon, a guest will ask, “How do you get the boats back upstream?”
As guides, we'd rather the...
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The River in a Covid-19 World
Nowadays, so much around us seems so uncertain. There are times in this uncertain world we are all navigating when we can’t help but feel a bit...
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The L.A. Times Prescribes Whitewater Rafting as Best Possible Vacation for Summer of 2020
"If and when life returns to normal — whatever the heck that will mean — this spring or summer, one of the first things I want to do is get on a...
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Cowboy Up He Said... Spring is around the Corner
This video was filmed and edited a few years ago when Garth Bundy retired. Garth had a positive impact on me as a young river guide, and then years...
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Your River Reading List
Here's a list of must-reads and favorite books to enhance your experience in canyon country and expand your knowledge of life in the...
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Western River Expeditions wasn’t always Western River Expeditions
So I've been told...
Western River Expeditions wasn’t always Western River Expeditions. In the beginning, it was just one man, Jack Currey,...
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Lessons From The Daily
I've loved my time working on a stretch of the Colorado River known to locals as "The Daily”. Rafting day trips here is one of the most popular...
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Reading List for the River
I have been extremely fortunate to have spent almost 600 miles on various rivers with Western River Expeditions. The next planned trip is June 16,...
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Our Brains in STOP, YIELD and GO - Building a Sense of Adventure
My friend, and former Western River guide, Kyndel Marcroft has made a career of studying the brain in relation to stressful or traumatic situations...
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Five Boats, Five Stories: J-Rigs, Oar rigs, Paddle rafts, Dories and Duckies in Grand Canyon
My first exposure to white water rafting down the grand canyon was as a 17 year old "extra swamper" on a motorized J-Rig raft. Maybe that skews my...
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Yoga and Cataract Canyon Rafting
Hello! We are so excited to be offering this amazing trip, created just for you! If you’re booking a river trip with Western, you’re already...
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Grand Canyon Rafting
What is the Grand Canyon? If you typed this question into your search engine you would likely get a simple geographical/geological answer stating...
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2019 Year in Review
2019 was a tremendous year for Western River Expeditions and the Moab Adventure Center.
We had a lot of water in the river, thanks to some heavy...
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Brian's Welcome to Moab, Utah
Anyone who has booked their Utah multi-day rafting trip may have already stumbled upon this insightful video from our CEO Brian Merrill on one our...
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10 Tips for the First Time Whitewater Rafter - Western River Blog
1. Don’t over pack
Everyone over packs. I’ve done hundreds of whitewater rafting trips and I’ve over packed for almost every one. I’ve come off...
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11 Myths of Whitewater Rafting - Western River Blog
MYTH #1- “Rafting is for adrenaline junkies”
We know that the videos and photos of extreme (extremely questionable) rafting antics seem to be the...
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Seven Surprises of a Grand Canyon Trip - Western River Blog
Seven is a good number. The Grand Canyon is one of seven wonders of the world. The Grand Canyon was a surprise to Conquistadors en-route to the...
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